Word Rescue is an educational platform game written by Karen Crowther (Chun) of Redwood Games and released by Apogee Software in March 1992.

Like many Apogee games of the time, Word Rescue includes three episodes, with only the first episode playable in the shareware version.

Visit Gruzzleville and the Castle

Explore GruzzleBad Caverns

See the Spooky Haunted House

Apogee still sells the registered version of this game.

The game is followed by Word Rescue Plus.

The story centers on creatures called "The Gruzzles". Because the Gruzzles cannot read, they steal words out of books, preventing others from reading as well. Playing as a boy or girl, the player must help Benny Bookworm take back all the stolen words and match them with their meanings so he may put them back into the books.

No OSHA Compliance: The factory levels feature open slime pits, open tanks and dripping slime pipes.

Non-Lethal K.O.: The player stops Gruzzles by pouring a bucket of slime on them, and they leave afterward.

One-Hit-Point Wonder: Simply touching a Gruzzle, falling into a pit and, on higher levels, touching slime droplets was grounds for Benny whisking you away and restarting the level. This gave this deceptively simple game a level of Surprise Difficulty.

Spelling Bonus: Letters for a random word on that level's word list were placed throughout the level. If all were collected in order, a 500-point bonus and full slime refill would be awarded. By themselves they were only worth 5 points each.

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